Comparison Arsen vs GoPhish
Arsen vs GoPhish
We like GoPhish. It is the most complete open-source framework for running phishing, and it is a fine place to start. Choose Arsen when the time you spend maintaining the stack starts costing more than the tool saves you.
Human risk management feature matrix
Every row is an Arsen human risk management capability. GoPhish is checked only when that capability is explicitly visible on GoPhish's public product pages.
| Feature | Arsen | GoPhish |
|---|---|---|
| ⚡ Attack simulations | ||
| Phishing simulation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · Yes Both support email phishing simulation with custom templates and landing pages. |
| AI voice phishing / vishing simulation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen simulates realistic phone-based social engineering with live AI voice and voice cloning. |
| Conversational phishing simulation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen supports conversational scenarios that feel closer to real attacker exchanges than static email templates. |
| Deepfake simulation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen deploys AI-generated voice and video impersonation as operational simulation scenarios. |
| ClickFix phishing simulation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen supports ClickFix-style simulations against fake-fix and prompt-driven tactics. |
| QR-code attack simulation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen generates QR-code payloads that mimic real-world physical and digital QR attacks. |
| Built-in scenario library | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen ships 90+ multilingual built-in scenarios, fully customizable through a visual or source editor. With GoPhish you build or import every template yourself. |
| Multichannel social engineering coverage | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen combines email, SMS, voice, QR, and impersonation into coordinated campaign workflows. |
| 🧠 Training and remediation | ||
| Micro-learning training | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen deploys micro-learning pages in minutes. With GoPhish you build and host your own training page. |
| AI lesson creation | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen supports AI-assisted lesson creation inside the awareness workflow. |
| Static content delivery | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · Partial Arsen hosts and delivers awareness content automatically. GoPhish can point to a page, but you are responsible for building and hosting it. |
| Contextual awareness page | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen replays the phishing email with the clues highlighted, so the lesson lands at the moment of failure. |
| Behavior-focused human risk program | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen tracks behavior change over time by user and by group. GoPhish reports per campaign. |
| Triggered lesson | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen triggers training based on user actions and simulation outcomes. |
| Adaptative training | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen adjusts remediation paths based on behavior and risk signals. |
| Employee-facing dashboard | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen gives employees visibility into their own progress and score. |
| 📊 Reporting and operations | ||
| Real-time campaign reporting | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · Yes Both report in near real time. GoPhish covers opens, clicks, and submitted data. |
| Advanced behavioral reporting | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen adds device detection, reaction time between click and compromise, password entropy, and simulated crack times. |
| Progress tracking over time | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen monitors progress across campaigns by user and by group. GoPhish scopes reporting to a single campaign. |
| Employee risk / security score | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen assigns a security score weighted by scenario difficulty. |
| Employee credential exposure monitoring | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen monitors exposed employee credentials as part of Threat Monitoring. |
| Managed sending infrastructure | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen automates SPF, DKIM, DMARC, WAF, and SSL. With GoPhish you configure the sending server, DNS records, sending profiles, and certificates yourself. |
| Attack domain library and custom domains | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen provides 65+ attack domains for phishing emails and landing pages, plus your own custom domains. |
| Google Safe Browsing resilience | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen provides protections against Safe Browsing blocks and security devices that generate false clicks, so you do not lose behavioral data mid-campaign. |
| Whitelisting support | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · Partial Arsen offers IP, header, and API delivery, with guided instructions for IT admins. GoPhish supports header and IP methods without implementation support. |
| Advanced scheduling | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · Partial Arsen supports recurring campaigns, time ranges, and exclusion of weekends or specific days. GoPhish covers launch and end dates. |
| Multi-tenant management | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen manages multiple client organizations from one access. With GoPhish you deploy a separate instance per client to compartmentalize data. |
| Google / Microsoft / Okta sync | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · No Arsen integrates with major identity providers for user provisioning. |
| API-driven phishing workflows | Arsen · Yes | GoPhish · Yes Both expose a REST API. Arsen's is designed to trigger simulations and sync results into an existing security stack. |
| Free and self-hosted | Arsen · No | GoPhish · Yes GoPhish is MIT-licensed, free to use, and runs entirely on your own infrastructure with no vendor dependency. |
💡 GoPhish has no licence cost. The real cost sits in infrastructure, deliverability, and the engineering hours behind both. Arsen offers transparent, per-user pricing with no hidden fees for multichannel simulations. Request a personalized quote during your demo.
Comparison last reviewed . We update these pages regularly as vendors ship new capabilities, but feature sets move quickly and some details may lag behind the latest release. Check the vendor's own documentation for the current state.
The tool is free. The day of configuration before your first campaign is not.
With GoPhish you set up a sending server, manage SPF, DKIM and DMARC, create a sending profile per domain, and configure domains and certificates before a single email goes out. With Arsen that is automated, and you can customize a scenario and launch a simulation in under 30 minutes.
GoPhish
The most complete open-source phishing framework available, with a clean interface, a REST API, and full control over your own infrastructure. Excellent for research, one-off engagements, and teams with in-house engineering time to spend.
Arsen
Phishing as a service: fully managed infrastructure, 65+ attack domains, 90+ multilingual scenarios, Safe Browsing resilience, multichannel simulation, integrated awareness, and multi-tenant management for MSPs and security researchers.
Switching from GoPhish? We make it easy.
Arsen's team handles migration, user import, and reporting continuity so your program never misses a beat. Most teams are live within a week.
Typical go-live in under a week
Common questions about Arsen vs GoPhish
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Yes. Book a personalized demo and we will walk you through phishing, deepfake, vishing, QR-code, and impersonation simulations, and show you how much of your current GoPhish setup work disappears.
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Absolutely. If you have questions about fit, migration, integrations, or rollout, use the demo form and our team will get back to you quickly. We can keep the conversation focused on your current setup and your constraints.
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GoPhish is a good fit when you have engineering time available, you run occasional engagements, and email is your whole scope. Arsen makes more sense when you run a continuous program, need voice or SMS coverage, care about deliverability at scale, or manage simulations for several client organizations.
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Yes. You can bring your own templates and scenarios into Arsen alongside our built-in library, and our team will help you move user and group structure and rebuild your reporting workflows so nothing is lost in the transition.
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Book a demo and tell us what you are running today. We can help you work out where GoPhish is still serving you well, where the maintenance cost is quietly adding up, and what an Arsen deployment would actually look like.